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your Fxcellency that I teas reduced to the necessity of surrendering the, fortress of Almeida,- Which I I ri Ile honour to tort-inland,' on tile 27th of this current month, at ten o'clock at night, in conse quenoe of the unfortunate ekplosion 'of the large powlier rnagazitn hi the castle, a lid" of two sinati magazines contiguous to it;, by which dread ful accident I was deprived of all my artillery a.,d ammunition,,.with Ole exception of a small number of ,:•Jrtridges winCh were lodged near the' batteries, and 39 barrels of power deposited in the laboratory; mort` than half the detachnient: , of artilleity, - andl" considerable number - Of toot soldiers, besides several it habitants, were destroyed . by . the ‘ dreadful'explo.'- sion ; many pieces of ordnance wrreritstuotinted in the trii•eriei, the works 0 - esl ' 'damaged, and a ge neral consternation prevail;-,1 among rho ,inhabitants and troops. In this unfortunate received a Letter from Marshal, Massena, , Commander in of the kterich a my in Portugali in.,which he proposed to toe ty to fender the place to ; the French army under his orders, on the honourahle terms which he. was yeady.to grant me. ,I returned for answer; that' wished. to c know the terms .he , had .to Flops-. The articles were then- trinstnitted to mt., tacoty of which I . have the honour tp enclose, and, which, after I had used all possible means to obtain better terms, but, without efiect,,,l, was obliged to accept, with the : sole eAceptiOn tohtained in tavour of the regiments of Port'Uguese militia. . . . I trust, that my concinci on this crikical,roccasion will be honoured wiih, your Excellency's.approba tion, and that I shall. be justified in the eyes of my country by the circtmSi,occ of the case. (Here tollow, the Artici - • s of Capitukition, which ha%e already been, published.j--(Lislion Gazette, Sept. S.) MAILS. AR RI V ED-1 Dublin, •t Waterfoid. Du 1,-1 Dublin, V;'ateriurd. PRICE OP STOCKS • THIS DAY AT TWIr LA: 11, O'CLOCK. ( " 0115015 6611 i ()trillium - - • - 51 lilt)6 uN. EOLEM QUIS VICIIRL 1 ALSUM AUDEAT ? • D - 0 LV, SA'T'URDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1810. . some very erroneous accounts have appeared in the public papers resvecting ►he position of .the British Armyfn 'Porttrgal. When the last ac- counts came away, Lord WELLINGTON had con ceotrated:his Army in front of Coimbra, with the MOndego on his right, and the Sierra on his left. , MASSENA was between Viseu and Tondinello. Lord WE L LINGTON'S position is said tote .so strong, • as Almost to.defiall attack. The report of -his Lord ship hating ordered the transports round to Mondego Bay, is, we believe, totally unfounded ; he has very recently received a reinforcemtnt of 7000 Some roore Spanish and Portuguese. Papers reach ed town yesterday everting. They contain, General Cox's account of the 'surrender of Almeida. We have also extraatd a Letter of General .BERESFORD, in which he gives a fresh instance of the perfidy of the Fteneb, in their •treatment of the garrison of that place. The Pcincess AMELIA, we are extremely concern c.l to say, was last night so much indisposed as to excite the most alarming apprehensions, His Ma jesty's Messenger had not arrived iit town with an account of the situation of her' Royil 'Highness tuis day when our Pai,er was put to press. • AS BLIONAPA RTE thust be convinced that"our Wood ill eff:ctually prevent hitri from bucce ss - folly invading this country with force, it 'is be•ex peaed. that he will try all possible means to vent his implacable rancour against us, and aceo;nfolish our - - ruin by stratagem. He is as. subtle as he'is veno mous,' and no common -degree of artifice is to be expected from such a mar, when he has a deter. mined purpose in view!i' and, as in the present in stance, wishes tb remote' the only obstacle to his ambition, by the...doWrifi-ill of the British . .Eiripire. Hence it has been inferred that the assigned cause of LUCIEN'S having thrown'hitriself upon the protec tion of this country, or purposely incurred,, the chance of being taken:, by- our cruizers, is to• be ' received with great distrust and caution, lest it shouli be connea - lecl with some deep And compre hensive machina:ion. ,grorn the known charaaer of both the brothers,:sueh an opinion may be rea sonably formed ; nor wotkid it be refining - too much to entertain it, it dim: ,were any chance of carry, log the plot into execution, or if LUcIEN could en gage in it , witheut danger to himself; but though there are doubtless many French spie,s among us, and many foreigners capable of assisting. in any dia bolical plan for the ruin of the country that protects them, yet we conceive that LUCIEN is . hardly so rash as to engage in so perilous and hopolcss an enter- prize. He has acquired a large fortune, and may enjoy it any where but in countries under the controui of his brother ; and as destruction May be supposed to hover over that brother, considering the pains which 1 - 11 has taken to rouse all mankind . against him, an 4 the accumulated miseries which he has brought upon the world, it would not be wonderful. if . LucttN thought it Nue 'to consult his own safety, and, filtrom the impending . storaa. But. though this . rice. is natural an4:!,reasonable, .. we .sfiould always . Covider the BUONAPARTES as a peculiai-ra&, who seem to be born for the oppression of man, and actuated by feelings suitable to .a tendency; and therefore we trust that Ministers will vigilantly .watch.all.bis rouvetueats, and never place the least confidence in his declarations, hOwevcr 'probable, they, may appear. . . Yesterday!nrorning his . " MAJESTY, the Dukes-of YORK, .KENT, and.CUMJnItLAN'D, Princesses Au- GIJ,STA and' SOPHiA; accom panied by . Lord WAL 44NGHAM, Lady ELY i FITtROY; and Col. TAYLOA, took an airing in Windsor Great Park, till hatt-past twelve o'clock: • We are ,exiretnely sorry to say that Princess ;AMELIA COEIHIIIeS in the satoe alarming state as !when. our account left. Windsor yesterday. .No hopes are entertained of her Royal Highness's re covery. Dr. BAILIE arrived m the morning of yes :terday at Windsor, from his seat at' ireacester; . and he, together .with. Sir HENRY HA,LFoan and Dr: POPE, Were iilattendance upon her Royal High • 'Jess during the whole of the day. Si. Alban's- sfreet, where she resides; was littered with straw.. All the Royal Dukes remained at Windsor. The iNtrrc-left -town yesterday morning at ten o'clock, 'on a visit to the Pansicess. At seven.o'clock in the toot-Ding Miss GQLDSWORTHY left town for Wind sor, having received - an express from thence, stat- Ing her Royal Highness to be in a most alarming state. The following letter to a Gentleman of the highest respeaability, accompa'.lied the Portuguese Gazette containing: Colonel dispotch, viz. LOllOl4, SEPT. 8..--,-oEcoUrsC you 'have heard 'of the fall of 'Almeida, and inclosed you have the particulars of ,that' event, which I think . are not destitute of interest. You u ill also find that our head-"quarters have been removed to Gonyea. MAs- SENA is at Celerico, add advanCing fast. " The Marquis - Ai.ORNAi formerly •a; Portuguese Lieut.-General, now in the French -erviee, has been appointed - by MASSENA,.G9VeJLIOr of the PrOilake of Beira. He has issued several Proclamations in4a . your of the French Government, and 'yesierday be was denotineed. r a traitor, his papers burnt - by the common hangman, before the arsenal; and 1000 nio , dores reward offered-I . or his head. He has' eii deavoUred tedo a great deal of mischief. `.." By the 10tirot Octobef'l . expect a grand battle wiil.befut4;lll. If MassEisl,Lis delcated,--as-I--hope and trust he will be, our country may prove his to tal deStruction. , • " A ship of war arrived yesterday with two toil lion4 of dollars from Gibraltar." According to the above cowinunication, which is from a very intelligent quarter, no general was •expected t,,ti-rke place before the loth instant, owing, probably, to Lord WELLINGTON'S prudently . waiting the arrival of the ~ hole ot• the reinforce ments, which he knew were on their way to 'juin him. A remarkable instance, proving the fame and re spectability of the house of the late Messrs. B. and A. .GOLDi4II.I% .ocCUrred about six years since. A bill of exchange for 10001. drawn by them on a house at Paris, had passed thrOugh a great. many hands on the Continent.; and. when it fell due, one . .of the partners who had accepted it was dead, and the other, after his deCease, bactrelnOvedto America, and no provision was made for honouring the The holder of it, wanting the money, snewe'l it to the principals, a large mercantile house in France, and-asked-their advice-on-the •subjett.'; -who said; he need, be under no inconvenience or apprehension on account of its not being honoured by the acceptors ; that they knew- the drawers to.'be such honourable rnNi,' that' they would them Selves pay -the bill, rather firm) it should be disgraced; and they ac cordingly paid - it. The bill was afterwards sent by post to Messrs. B.'and A. C I :OLDS:WI% by . the firm who had this taken -it up, endorsed —" Paid 4.. MeFsr.O. J,:M:LEMAITRE and: Co. fbr the:honoqt of the drawers."-'—Such generous conduct •of ..rner chints in an enemy's country, • is, perhaps, unprece dented, and . shews the.tlighly flattering-,opinion en tertained of the honour and punctuality in business of the late Messrs B; and'A;Got.nsmin; A large quantity of COlone! CONGREVE'S shell rackets; to be used, against' troops'2,in the field, has jdst 'been'ient .to the rniy inl36rtugal., At ae General QUarter Sessions for th,e,city .of EXetef, held at the Guildhall, on Monday and Tues .. . day iast, - ; John Gfiddon,. late Secretary' to the-West of Er - iglu - id Fire and Life Insurance Company, ;Was. indicted for defrauding th'e . 'company of divers ,large sums, Of :money. The Counsel for the prosecutiwr being unable to prove the dues execution of the deed of.settlement,andof each and every sigoature,,there to,,'it Was. not allowed to: be produced in evidence, in consequence of which the prisoner was acquitted. Wednesday a journeyman barber, in Great Earl-' street, Seven Dials, cut his throat in a dreadful manner; but-surgical assistance being at hand the wound was sewed up, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. He had lately collected trifling sums of money from the trade which he had puf proper uses, and the dread•of being,detected 'is sup- , postd to.h operateLt so ° strongly on his mind as to, have drove him to the rash-act. On Saturday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, the city of Chester was visited by one ot the heaviest, thunder storms, accompanied by lightning'and rain; ever re-. membered. The rain (ell in torrents, literally de luging the streets, which appeared one sheet of water, in some . places.rriore "than afoot deep, and totally' impassable for toot passengers for more than two hours. ()h.-Wednesday a fine girl, 3 years old, daughter of Mrs. HUSSETS, in Leicester -street, Su•allow street, .fell out of the two pair of stairs window. on the spikes in the railing. She was conveyed to the Hospital. where she died the next day. His ►Serene Highness PRINCE WILLIAM of HEssE PHiLirsTAL, died at the Castle of Phi 14,6141 on the sth of Atigust;of a dropy in the chest. We present our•teaders with the following into resting communication, respecting the military and political occurrences in the Isle of Leon. lt. will 'be found to Contain "more information .than a vo . Annie of Spanish Gazettes • " CADIZ, SEPT. 13.---Thes,tate.of affairs here has experienced very little change fDr some time past, we have, indeed, a prospect of long inactivity.; for. . _ Victor's force is Much too inconsiderable to enable the enemy to proceed in any military operation against us, and we - are not sufficiently powerfial, at present, to attack the French in .their strong positions. It .is rather a singular circnm4tanee, that we-have not yet colkcted any. precise information . of the amount. of the enemy's force. 7 We conclude, hoWever, that it cannot exceed 17 or- 18,000 men, or that it Cannot consist of less than 12,000; Certain 'it is, that the enemy have been reduced both by. sickness and de sertion ; bUt much more,by the former than by the lit ter cause. The fleet has sustained- some inconvenience froai not being 'able to obtain supplies of water from the: place where it was formerly procured; and where; indeed,the water is of the best quality,. The boats eMployed on t his "seri/lee were constantly fired upon , by the Prench, and some of theM were •truck, and, I am sorry 'to add, that the erews'were To :obviate this annoyance, and to preserte, as much, aspossible, the valuable lives of our Sailors, the boats employed to . fetch water were tiolonger employed in the day-time ; and night - afforded them, for a short:period, some security Agaiust the enemy's fire. This change of plan'was, however, discovered by the, enemy ; and, by ,the assistance•of very large fires, - they were still enabled to• ascertain the - course or the boats at night,. and to keep upon them a .most . tremendous fire. " The losses we sustained havest length made it necessary to. get water .from ,another -point, and though it is not quite of. such good quality as the former, yet it is by no means 'The town' of Cadiz is most abundantly -supplied with water, and indeed, -with provisions in general. Few Markets ar'e better supplied-with fruits and vegeta bles; but butcher'S meat is rather dear, and not of very..good quality... This is mostly the casein hot. Climates ; for the flesh of well-fed , animals would :hardly resist putrefaction for an hour,. alter being slaughtered.- " lam happy to say, that if there are any disaf fecied in Cadi4; their-hubilier is very inconsiderable. Abont twoor three mont'hs ago. a few lights were. diicoVered,-Which Were' possibly intended either to comaiunicate 'intelligence to the enemy, or to answer their.. comtumnicaiions.•. But. the vigilance and activity of the police are such, that no attempt has since - be.eri made to hold any such indirect,' ri ter- Course with • the:. El end). Nor - is it quite certain,' that roese lights were exhibited- for the purpose-of holding any traitorous iutereourSe with Victor's army. • " -By this time it is concluded, that the Members of the . Corres - rw ha - have - been - 701'16M from all parts, amount to about three hundred—the nutneer , required by the ConStitutinn to give validity taany deliberative skis. They are all believed to be animated w ith the love of their . cotintry, and a sen . titnent of determined hatred to the French„ One of then tint acts, it is conjeaured,willbe the reniOl,.al of the present Regency: .E% - ery thing, however, will still be conducted in the .name of Ferdin;ind - the ; at.d from the measures . of the Corte - s, it is confidently expected that a new and more v!gorou4 impulie Will be given to the patriotic bands that are; in almost every part of the. Peninsula, -mganizing and devoting •themselves to the. - grand object of weakening, harassing, and gradually exterminating the enemy. , The preSent Junta is divided into three cham bers;, which - though they, deliberate together,liave the . particular superintendance of the Police, -the Finance and the Army. The . Police is so well or= gadized, and so well calculated to prevent the in troduction of any suspicious polititml character into the town, that no housekeeper can venture, with: out an intimation to the Police, to to harbour any stranger in his house; and tar the 'residence of any person... Jot _ibis. _description the permission of the Police is indispensably necessay. This precaution bicarne tAle- more expedient front the multitude of people that at first flocked into the town. The po pulation of :Cadiz usually,consisis of about. 90 ,or 100,0100 souls; but it is supposed . that, including the military, it now amounts to about 140,000. To this immensity of - population, encourage ment has been given to emigrate to South America, the- CArraries,'lVlajorta, , and -Minorca ; and 'many families have proceeded tb these different places. • "'As to the- Finances.; there' i4 . rio apparent scar i:!y'Otskpilars in. Cadiz ; on: the contrary,, there.are aluadatice.in ?circulation ;• so much so,' indeed, as to Present-a-sityglar, spectacle to :,_,a person Who ha's 1 . 1 e 1 4. 40 Pg ..c=rt i ggOmed to nothing but a paper circu lation;:lind the.clifficulty of procuring a supply of spe*'frventii'd sniallamount. . . ." The army is on an excellent footing. The Bri tish consist at 8000 men. The Spaniards, I mean the regular Spanish farce, amount to much mere.-- There .is, besidei, a. corps Spanish, volunteers amounting to`4ooo men, who tak-e a regular rota tion of niilitark- duty in the tows. lii . addition to ibis force, there is 'a remarkably 'fine regiment of about .1500 men. - " \Vita new municipal fortes the Government is to assume, itis , impossible to foresee; but the most beneticial-restilts are confidently expected from the new order of things which is abuut to flake place in Spanish affairs." We mention the following as a pleasing occur renee:—Mr. W. Wasozi, writer, in Glasgow, hav ing lately had an opportunity in the line of his profes sion, of being serviceable to two Irish labourecs.em ployed at the. Canal now forming between Glasgow and Paisley, their fellow work Men and countrymen, in the vicinity of Glasgow, to testify their sense of Mr. WILSON'S friendship, volunteered to give him a day's work at•harvest, on his farm at Cowglen; and accordingly, on Saturday, the 29th ult. ninety stout young Irishmen appeared on the ground with hooks, and, in the course of six hours,. cut down, in a good style, upwards OE6OO large stooks of oats, the pro duce of a field containing 14 Scotch actes,=--Glasgow Paper, NAVAL NEWS. • t P LYMOUTri, O ' cT. Majesty's ship " 715 ;135 I detained and sent in here the Prussian vessel helmina; from Bourdeaux, with a cargo. Sai~ecl his 'Majesty's ships A , lnatia, Haack, 81 ' Orestes, to the WeA ward. Arrrived the Leonidas, CooK, from Quebec tbr London, pu:t in by contrary :winds ; the and Mary, Notimas; And M'icur,y, sm.riaDo from Wales.' Sailed his, Majesty's ship Latona for Portsrnoe' His .Maj , fsty's ship Poiaieri was ra(.l.iied tjQitl quarantine this morning. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 5.--6ine in this us/ If ' Majesty's ship Raid'', with thiee sail of traniri t 'l from the Dovims. Arrived this evening the Triton, of London, troll St. Domingo, for London ; she - hastad bad weatber , p are duringthe voyage,' and bee,) obliged - to of her cargo Overbond in consequenc;: : she 113 ' been nine weeks On her passage: • Arrived his Alajesty's ship 4innet,from s f , ,"i s l;j FALMOUTH, OCT. 3. Arrived tile "' schouraer from a cruize. Dl%At., OCT. s.—Came down from the River an a sailed the Chillia)n Castle, NEAi.E, tor Suritiari and the' Ganyinede, to the West Ward: Ca,iie dolt' from the. River, and sailed under contoy of the Retulgun-brig to Portsmouth, the Sovereign, M °: NEUR, and Eaglu; PEARSON,' for. Lisbon and Expedition, LUNG, SHEER NESS,. OCT. s.—Sailed his Majesty's 51°° P Beagle, Cap;. DoLLING,Iur the'Downs. RELIEF OF SHIPWRECKED MARINERRS• On Thursday se!nnight were exhibited at 17. , f , ; mouth, before Rear-Admiral Lord Gardner, for report thereOn . (ordered by._the - Lords' C.otriti: sioners of th.e•Admiralty), two boats, with.a prosyq method of getting them from a beach in a gal' ' f wind, previqus to their being sent to the Island. °, Anliolt, with a complete set of apparatus' for shipwrecked Mariners: . The first boat was a slir." J one; of 15 "feet keel, 74 feet beam, and 14 cwt: it had "tWo extended billage ti6ards, c ' equal depth with .the keel;to keep it in an uprig b t position, for the advantages of launching, beocht4,, and to resist.upsetting, With a broad fender of CV O surrounding the upper work; to prevent the P 05 . 6 '; bility of being stove ; it was tilled with water, " 1-1 , the buoyant properties of the air '(secured in to:‘esi, kept it so much .above the water's edge, that 111 , me' rowed it - athint with the mosrapparent anddeclared it wasin" that stateable - to perforin a'1 1 : service that could be required.—The next nan of war's jolly boat, fitted up with etnPlY oe casks lashed within it to give buoyancy, the.bill' t boards, as before described, to keep it in an uprira position, with a Stout projecting rope going .r°o`.`is, its :gunwale, . serving as a fender - to preven t ' 0 being stove, _The whole expence of thus fit flog I l i 4(4 not otcce;d 31. ancrit could be put. togelile l a few minutes. , 0 6 The advantages Of this methodof giving - the perties .of preservation to any. boat may be W l ' l , tiered of great importance to, a maritime and c 6. 115 inertial country; as many a brave fellow who 1 4 6 oVerboard at sea, and perishes in a gale of from the boat swamping, which prevents tie r s a i bility of going to . his ass.stance, may thus be s 3ve ie d likewise the boats arqund the coast - may be, en" 9, to at 'a very small. expence, to be thus converted efficient life-boats, by which 'numerous livo imniense "property be annually saved, Pa rhc-L i; larly since the Lords' Commissioners of the A dl t, ratty have literally signified their invention of P 1 .4 vtdwg' thefull :gleans of security against distrOs ,ve ship Wreck, at the ditfetent signal stations along"' coasts of these kingdoms. e at .Similarrexpe ^ riments with those lately come 'of Cromer and Lowestoft then took place, by two anchors being' laid out,' wi.h a stout rop e 6u rjo prided bet Ween them, at thedi,tance of 150 Y 3 from • the. jetty • end•i•- , - 7 the shot'.ias.. of a l t r, lo construction, 'adapted to . give the :greatestposs,llvbir range, and was trtposii to be di'settg 3 i', l ;c accident, when. once it lnid Caught the rope',., rope projected .was uf the patent Sunderland fltru• l • - 0 facture, of' - strength equal to any two-inch rcp t l e , use. The foul weather flag w:ls flying at the ti ll 3 ;/ 'but the surf was, not sufficiently high to s l i t -, the great power that can be acqdired by this sittlf o ,'` effective, and certain mean.; however, ther e ` b not the least doubt entertained, from the result pea the experiment, that whenever its • use is forth, itcouid haul any weight that a two-inc h rer i can sustain nearly the, distance of 200 yaf'-', distance sufficient for ,Any part of the coast opinion has been most sully confirmed by th e l r t lots and Committees of the LoAces , toft and Cre ill life-boats. • Lord WELLINGTON, it is said; has transmitte%eio Government some intercepted correspondence of t . enemy, which is considered as extremely impolla!1co. Among these is a dispatch trot - n.o'4; Duke of Tr''.r;cy (Marshal MoartEa) to-the Emperor himself, gi.'l,; details Of great discontent and jealousies Salon; t`3, French Generals, and which threaten their. oP.'rr, tions with disaster. It also appears from the I ` tf e 'er eg_ v ,g copied correspondence, that the French are dr fully harassed by the desultory mode of wat fare litivey adopted by - thc Spaniards and Portuguese , that t ' tcl find it necessary to fortify the villages, in or de %o , secure a communication teetween their princip al, dies, Ir. ThE t as v, 4, lu w \.